unchic

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ chic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unchic (comparative more unchic, superlative most unchic)

1. unfashionable
   • 2008 April 13, Stephen Koch, “The Playboy Was a Spy”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     By 1936, Coward’s unchic loathing of appeasement and Neville Chamberlain (“that bloody conceited old sod”) was turning him into something of a Churchill bore.

   • 2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 20:

     The sole image of Henry Cavendish captured in his lifetime shows an aristocratic-looking man in a frock coat, frilled shirt-wrists, and white stockings, wearing a knocker-tailed periwig under a black three-cornered hat. This was a defiantly unchic style of dress even in the late 1700s, and he wore the same outfit every day of his adult life.

Synonyms

• (not fashionable): démodé, passé, unhip; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

Derived terms

• unchicly